Local server pause

[neofit]

Hi,

I am playing solo on a local server. I need to pause quite often, and of course, as in all online and "local online" games, pausing the client does not pause the server, as it should be. It takes quite a long time to get back in if I log out, and the game always crashing if I try to relog from the main screen does not help either.
Is there a trick to pause my local solo server?

[RoY]

there is no pause. if you want to pause and save where you are at you need to shut the server down.

[Alf Tupper]

Nope, as RoY says, you will have to stop your LAN server.

May I ask a couple of questions though?

Is there really a need to stop the server each time you need to take a break?
When you say the game is crashing - do you mean the client or the server?

[neofit]

Originally posted by Alf Tupper:

When you say the game is crashing - do you mean the client or the server?

When I wanted to pause the game I've been trying to exit to the main menu first, the in-game main menu, not the launcher. If I then hit "Play" again to rejoin the server, the game crashes. Never on the first join, always on the second. Happens with my local server or any community server that I've played on.
So to pause the game I need to exit to the launcher and then do the whole "Play" thingy again, which is rather long.

[RoY]

Originally posted by neofit:

Originally posted by Alf Tupper:

When you say the game is crashing - do you mean the client or the server?

When I wanted to pause the game I've been trying to exit to the main menu first, the in-game main menu, not the launcher. If I then hit "Play" again to rejoin the server, the game crashes. Never on the first join, always on the second. Happens with my local server or any community server that I've played on.
So to pause the game I need to exit to the launcher and then do the whole "Play" thingy again, which is rather long.

Don't hit play. You need to go to the LAN server list and join it through that.

[baddoggs]

Playing on your own server does not create a "single player"
mode, it's still a server.

[neofit]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Playing on your own server does not create a "single player"
mode, it's still a server.

And, like i said: "as in all online and "local online" games, pausing the client does not pause the server, as it should be"

[baddoggs]

Originally posted by neofit:

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Playing on your own server does not create a "single player"
mode, it's still a server.

And, like i said: "as in all online and "local online" games, pausing the client does not pause the server, as it should be"

Do you even know what a server is, what it does and how it actually works?

[LykosNychi]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by neofit:

And, like i said: "as in all online and "local online" games, pausing the client does not pause the server, as it should be"

Do you even know what a server is, what it does and how it actually works?

They very clearly do and you seem to not be understanding their question. there is absolutely no need to be condescending about this.

[_KC76_]

Originally posted by neofit:

Hi,

I am playing solo on a local server. I need to pause quite often, and of course, as in all online and "local online" games, pausing the client does not pause the server, as it should be. It takes quite a long time to get back in if I log out, and the game always crashing if I try to relog from the main screen does not help either.
Is there a trick to pause my local solo server?

I've had on occasion, similar "weirdness" .. I've gotten in the habit of just closing everything and shutting down the server when I need to attend other things .. Compared to something like Rust, the DayZ Server and launcher are quite fast .. With a large map and a few mods, my server starts within about 15 seconds, and is fully ready within 30 seconds .. My Rust servers can take up to 5 minutes to start up, and then you still need to enter console commands before it's fully ready to join.

[baddoggs]

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Do you even know what a server is, what it does and how it actually works?

They very clearly do and you seem to not be understanding their question. there is absolutely no need to be condescending about this.

Lol, they are trying to pause a server..
Yeah, clearly an "expert".
Name ONE MMO that has Pause.

[LykosNychi]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

They very clearly do and you seem to not be understanding their question. there is absolutely no need to be condescending about this.

Lol, they are trying to pause a server..
Yeah, clearly an "expert".
Name ONE MMO that has Pause.

They are asking if there is a server command to pause the server.
Which exists in many games which are host-to-client.

[baddoggs]

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Lol, they are trying to pause a server..
Yeah, clearly an "expert".
Name ONE MMO that has Pause.

They are asking if there is a server command to pause the server.
Which exists in many games which are host-to-client.

Well.. IS there?

Go on, tell us.

There isn't is there..
Making me right.

[LykosNychi]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

They are asking if there is a server command to pause the server.
Which exists in many games which are host-to-client.

Well.. IS there?

Go on, tell us.

There isn't is there..
Making me right.
:lunar2019crylaughingpig:

Nothing about this makes you right. You never said there isn't a command to pause the server; And there likely isn't. Had you said that, you'd have actually been helpful. Instead, you just came in here and started talking down to OP as if they don't know what a server is.

You started talking about a "single player mode" which absolutely nobody mentioned before you. You're making up fights to pick without them being there. I think you misunderstood what OP said.

They said that pausing the client doesn't pause the server. They also said that's how it should be. You apparently interpreted that as saying that it SHOULD pause the server, which is not what they said.

You've come into the thread, assumed someone is dumber than you, and instead of being helpful or friendly, you've chosen to try and make a mockery of someone over something you misread. You really put the ASS into assume.

FYI, "Pausing servers" is a concept which exists for games in other engines. It's not at all common, for sure. And it's usually some obscure command that will result in weirdness happening if you use it.

-Minecraft at one point could be modded to use a pausetick command which paused everything except the players. I believe it still has mods which allow the whole server, and clients, to be force paused.

-Project Zomboid also has similar functionality allowing the game to be paused if one installs a mod that allows multiplayer time stopping by admins.

-ARK has a global pause command that pauses the entire server, and the clients.

Many games have servers that also autopause when nobody is online, freezing all simulations. Granted, that is a different functionality, but it's not a huge leap of logic to ask if there's any such functionality for DayZ to be paused via server commands.

The difference is that DayZ's engine doesn't have the functionality for it, and would likely be impossible to mod in. OP is not stupid, or lacking experience in using servers, for not knowing that.

[neofit]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by neofit:

And, like i said: "as in all online and "local online" games, pausing the client does not pause the server, as it should be"

Do you even know what a server is, what it does and how it actually works?

Clearly WAY more than a smug git like you does.

[neofit]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

They very clearly do and you seem to not be understanding their question. there is absolutely no need to be condescending about this.

Lol, they are trying to pause a server..
Yeah, clearly an "expert".
Name ONE MMO that has Pause.

That's rich. Do you halfwit even know what an MMO is?